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Hixson-Lied Endowment Funding 2007-2008 The Hixson-Lied Endowment continues to fund exciting and innovative projects. The Hixson-Lied Advisory Board meets twice a year, in October and April, to review and approve expenditures. The Hixson-Lied Advisory Board was created to review and react to requests for expenditures of income from the Hixson-Lied Endowment to benefit the College and its affiliated organizations. The board encourages requests for funding that will truly advance excellence in the college and enhance its national reputation. Additionally,
Program Support Lied Center for Performing Arts, $40,000 over two years, for partial funding to support the Creative Campus Research Partnership Initiative. The Lied Center for Performing Arts, in partnership with the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, Department of Computer Sciences, Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Nebraska Educational Television and Troika Ranch Dance Company of New York and Berlin, is currently engaged in a research and commissioning project that will result in a new dance/theatre/music work using digital technology and exploring the relationship of movement data and control of digital media. The Hixson-Lied grant will support the documentary film component of the Troika Ranch Dance project. Sheldon Museum of Art, $30,000, for TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art. The exhibition will present art created by contemporary Latin American and Latino artists moving across and beyond geographical, cultural, political and aesthetic borders. Featuring the work of 48 artists, the exhibition highlights how these artists, despite their differences, have commonly explored
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the Board is involved in overseeing the investment of the endowed funds in cooperation with the University of Nebraska Foundation’s Finance Committee. What follows is a report on the new projects that were approved in 2007-2008 for funding in the three funding areas: Program Support, Faculty Support and Student Support. These do not include the on-going, multipleyear projects that were covered in previous alumni publications. A new three-year report on the Hixson-Lied Endowment will be published this fall.
the question of identity through their own cultures and life experiences. The exhibition will be on display at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery from Nov. 1, 2008, through January 18, 2009. Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, $87,040 over six years, for the creation of the Carson Film Series. The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (JCSTF) is proposing to create the “Johnny Carson School Film Series” and produce two, half-hour film projects over a six-year period. Hixson-Lied Program Enhancement Funding would be split between Projects #1 and #2. The HixsonLied funds would be coupled with Carson Endowment funds to create the needed budgets for the production of the two short films. Based upon the success of these two short film productions, it is expected that the Johnny Carson School Film Series will become an ongoing, unique and invaluable experience for both JCSTF students and students in other units of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, with a new film created every three years. The proposed film project would replace one theatrical production in every third year. School of Music, $230,100 over three years, to renew the Chiara String Quartet Residency, matched with three-year
funding from the University. The Chiara String Quartet has enhanced significantly the national reputation of the College, the School of Music, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln since their residency began in the fall of 2005. Through a wide variety of activities, both local and national in scope, that included significant enhancements to the academic curriculum in the School of Music, along with performances in traditional and nontraditional venues, recordings, outreach initiatives, musical recordings, and reviews in local and national media, the Quartet has established themselves competitively with chamber groups in similar positions in research universities with a national profile.
Faculty Support The establishment of a Faculty and Staff Awards Program, $20,000 annually. Funding establishes an ongoing awards program for faculty and staff, to recognize outstanding performance and accomplishments in the areas of teaching, research and creative activity, faculty service, outreach and engagement, and staff service to the college and university. Proposed recognitions would include four awards totaling $10,000 in teaching, two
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